[DoingIsLearning]

What you say is true but water management matters and this scarcity is largely self inflicted due to poor regulation.

The estimates vary but something close to 80% of water in Spain is spent on agriculture. You have large areas of Murcia and Andaluzia pretty much covered in canvas greenhouses.

A large fraction of this water for farming is spent producing year round tomatoes, strawberries, avocados, etc.

Much of these fresh produces is exported so it has nothing to do with food safety and everything to do with profit. Farmers are actively selecting profitable water intensive crops while externalizing the cost of creating water scarcity.

[nemo44x]

> What you say is true

It's probably not. Regional draught conditions over multiple years is a common thing. The USA had very hot temperatures for a decade in the 1930s for instance and this is just 1 of many examples.

Climate change isn't really a local thing like this is. The region has had multi-year droughts many times in the past and will have them in the future too. Climate change could make them more extreme, to be sure.

But claiming that this is from climate change just does more to discredit it, and more-so the people who are climate doomers, than anything.

[DoingIsLearning]

> Regional draught conditions over multiple years is a common thing

Winters have become increasingly milder across the mediterranean for the past 20 years, ask anyone, it is very noticeable.

September use to be the end of Holiday season now you have locals going to the beach in late October with +25 Celsius.

This means that reservoirs and river aquifers are not getting filled up during winter generating progressively more agressive draughts.

It's not the end of the world, people will find a way, but luxuries like golf courses and year round strawberries will likely need to be curbed.

[morkalork]

For a second I thought I was reading a reply in a thread about the drought in California!

[DoingIsLearning]

Everybody is remarkably similar when it comes down to money.

Edit: Everybody is remarkably similar when it comes down to their desire to make money @fragmede

[fragmede]

No they're not. The mere possibility of boatloads of money changes people, the act of having money changes people. Having billions of it changes people. People aren't similar when it comes down to money, because everyone's money situation is different.